1 David left Gath and escaped to Adullam’s fortress. When David’s siblings and all his extended family learned of this, they went to join him there.
2 Everyone who was in trouble, in debt, or in desperate circumstances gathered around David, and he became their leader. Approximately four hundred men joined him.
3 From there David went to Mizpeh in Moab. He said to the Moabite king, "Please let my father and mother stay with you until I know what God will do to me."
4 So David left his parents with the Moabite king, and they stayed with him the whole time David was in the fortress.